future

You can only rise so far by climbing on others_ shoulders, you know.

She was afraid of not being able to pull herself out of the dream world, never waking up, never knowing what really happened, never realizing her goals, her hopes, her dreams.

For the last century, almost all top political appointments [on the planet Earth] had been made by random computer selection from the pool of individuals who had the necessary qualifications. It had taken the human race several thousand years to realize that there were some jobs that should never be given to the people who volunteered for them, especially if they showed too much enthusiasm. As one shrewed political commentator had remarked: __e want a President who has to be carried screaming and kicking into the White House _ but will then do the best job he possibly can, so that he__l get time off for good behavior.

The future begins today.

Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please

Living in the past kills your future.

Every man is the craftsman of his future, whether he hone it himself or allow fate do it.

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

In post-modern finance, everybody took a risk when lending or borrowing.

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory_ hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.

If we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us.

There are two days in the year that you cannot do anything: YESTERDAY & TOMORROW: Only TODAY you can Be Happy, Smile, Dream, Love, Feel, & Be Thankful_

Some of us enjoy with today, some with future and some other with past.

The moment of realization is: When what you thought you couldn't be without, becomes a part of the past, rather than the start of the future.

Even not choosing is a choice.

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.

Sometimes the clouds weren't weightless. Sometimes their bellies got dark and full. It was life. It happened. It didn't mean it wasn't scary, or that I wasn't still afraid, but now I knew that as long as I was standing under it with Braden beside me when those clouds broke, I'd be alright. We'd get rained on together. Knowing Braden he'd have a big ass umbrela to shelter us from the worst of it. That there was an uncertain future I could handle.